First teams forming now

Ten people.
Ninety days.
Almost no money.

We build real companies starting from close to nothing. No investors, no loans, no outside money at all. You bring what you already have — a skill, a product, a truck, a garage full of tools. We put you on a team of ten and we build something that earns before the money runs out.

Tell us your skill See how it works

Cash per team

$100

The only money that goes in. Every team gets the same.

Outside funding

No investors, no loans, no rich uncle.

Team size

Ten people whose skills do not overlap.

Clock

90 days

To revenue. Not to a pitch deck.

Premise

Most people who could run a business never get the chance.

Not because they lack the skill. Because the first question anyone asks is how much money you can put in, and for most people the honest answer ends the conversation.

We are removing that question. Zero Fund Ventures puts together teams of ten people who each bring something real — a skill, a product they already make, a vehicle, a set of tools — and gives them ninety days to turn that into a company that makes money.

A hundred dollars in cash. Whatever the team already owns. Whatever they can talk their way into. That is the whole starting position, and it is the same one most successful businesses actually started from, before anyone wrote the story down differently.

Method

How it works, start to finish.

You tell us what you bring

A skill, a product, a truck, a shop. The thing people already call you about when something needs doing, or the thing you already make and sell. Not a résumé, not a cover letter. A sentence or two is plenty.

A person reads it

Every single one. No application fee, no filter that throws you out for the wrong keyword, no degree requirement. We are looking for capability, and capability does not always come with paperwork.

We build the team

Ten people chosen so the skills do not overlap. Someone who builds, someone who sells, someone who organizes, someone who closes. A team where everybody does the same thing cannot get off the ground.

Day one: a hundred dollars and what you already own

One hundred dollars in cash for the whole team — that is the only money that goes in. Everything else has to come from what the ten of you already have, or from what the business itself earns. The cash is capped. What you bring to the table is not.

Ninety days to revenue

Not a prototype. Not a deck. Money in the door from a paying customer, inside three months, or the team learns exactly why it did not happen.

The team owns what it built

You are not an employee and this is not an internship. The split is written down and agreed before day one, and what the team makes belongs to the team.

Criteria

What you bring to the table.

Two kinds of things count, and most people have more of both than they think. A company needs someone to make the thing, someone to sell it, and someone to keep the whole operation from falling over — and it needs something to work with on day one.

Something you can do

TradesFraming, wiring, plumbing, welding, HVAC, small engines

SellingDoor to door, phones, retail floor, closing a room

BuildingSoftware, hardware, furniture, anything you make with your hands

FoodLine cook, baker, catering, running a kitchen at volume

Driving & logisticsCDL, routing, warehousing, getting things where they go

RepairCars, phones, appliances, machines nobody else will touch

DesignBrand, product, print, making something look like it is worth money

NumbersBooks, pricing, margins, knowing where the money actually goes

NegotiatingSuppliers, landlords, terms, getting a yes out of a maybe

TeachingExplaining a hard thing simply enough that people buy it

OrganizingSchedules, crews, permits, the unglamorous half of every business

Something elseIf it makes money for somebody, we want to hear about it

Or something you already have

A productSomething you already make or sell, even in small numbers

A vehicleTruck, van, trailer. Half of any business is moving things

Tools & equipmentA welder, a mower, a camera, a commercial mixer

SpaceA garage, a shop bay, a kitchen you have access to

A licenceCDL, contractor, food handler, cosmetology, insurance

An audiencePeople who already listen to you, however small the number

The simplest test: are you the person people call when something has to get done? If so, you have the thing we are looking for — and if you also own the truck, say so.

Terms

The rules everyone agrees to.

No outside money

No investors, no business loans, no line of credit. If it cannot be built on what the business itself earns, it does not get built.

The cash is capped, not the effort

One hundred dollars is the only money that goes in. Everything past that has to come from what the team already owns or what the business earns. Bring the truck, the tools, the product you already make — that is not cheating, that is the point.

What you bring in stays yours

Lending the business your van does not hand anyone the title to it. What belongs to you before day one still belongs to you after, and it is written down that way.

Everything gets documented

The whole build gets written down, including the parts that go badly. The record is worth as much as the result.

The team splits what it makes

Ownership is agreed in writing before day one, not negotiated after there is something worth arguing over.

You can keep your job

This is not a demand that you quit and bet the mortgage. Teams are built around what people can genuinely commit.

Apply

Tell us what you are good at.

We are taking names now for the first teams. One skill, one line on what you would do with nine other people behind you. That is the whole application.

Got it.

Your name is on the list. When we are building a team that needs what you do, you will hear from us directly.

Ten people.Ninety days.Almost no money.